Life in Pieces: Season One Ratings

Published: April 1, 2016

CBS debuted two new comedies last season. They cancelled one (The McCarthys) and renewed the other (The Odd Couple). How will Life in Pieces perform in the ratings. Will it get a second season? Stay tuned.

Life in Pieces revolves around four branches of the Short family tree and their sometimes awkward, funny, and touching milestones. The cast includes James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, Thomas Sadoski, Angelique Cabral, Colin Hanks, Zoe Lister-Jones, Niall Cunningham, Betsy Brandt, and Dan Bakkedahl.

The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.

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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.

I liked the Life In Pieces pilot. But each episode has gotten worse. 4 stories is too many to present in 4 acts. Also, just didn’t care about characters. They’re funny, but no depth. Just caricatures. Compared to The Grinder. In two short episodes, I can already sense that these are real people. Seriously, don’t sleep on The Grinder. It doesn’t hit you over the head with jokes every two seconds like Life In pIeces and every other lame network sitcom. I really appreciate the deliberate pacing and real character development.

Renew this show. It gets better each week–and this week it was hilarious. This is finally a compelling reason to watch CBS on Mondays and makes shows I can take or leave like Scorpion and NCIS LA stronger contenders for viewing.

To Helen….. ok, what’s a SENTENCE of decency? LOL Anyway, I thought the couple w/the 3 kids was the best… specially the part in the ice room @ the hotel. I didn’t care at all for the funeral part though. Too goofy.